Ein Jahr ist vergangen, seit das Ermittlerteam um Karl Sönnigsen der Polizei von Westerland erfolgreich gezeigt hat, wie man einen Serientäter stellt. Jetzt bekommt Karls Bekannte Helga einen Anruf von einer Freundin:
Viktor ist ein Mann mit durchschnittlichen Problemen: Er wird demnächst fünfzig, er hat hohen Blutdruck, fünf Kinder, zwei Exfrauen und eine Lebensgefährtin, die nicht immer so glücklich wie er selbst damit ist, dass er gerade Festival-Intendant wurde.
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.
Set in Rhodesia, ‘The Grass is Singing’ tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm.
After the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the police.
Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived.
Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners.
A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.
Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer?
Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest ist die Fortsetzung von Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums, und der enthielt solch wertvolle Tips, wie man z.B. die Kunst des Fliegens erlernt.
Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder,...